A father wanted to witness the death sentence being carried out. He wanted to watch a vicious murderer killed: in Algiers, in late 1913, a field laborer had murdered a family of farmers, including the children,and also robbed his victims.

The father woke early and left for the execution site on the edge of the town. A large crowd was already waiting there: people who wanted to see how the guillotine beheaded the criminal. But when the father retur